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Space -- The Final Junkyard | 1999

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Documentary about the spent rockets, fuel tanks and millions of fragments left in space and now pelting spaceships and satellites at 20,000 mph. While this debris doesn't seem that large a concern considering the ...more

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Documentary about the spent rockets, fuel tanks and millions of fragments left in space and now pelting spaceships and satellites at 20,000 mph. While this debris doesn't seem that large a concern considering the vastness of space, the windshield of a Shuttle was cracked by a simple fleck of paint. A French spy satellite was knocked out by a piece of metal from a rocket. Debris is also falling on the Earth. In 1996, a Russian satellite loaded with plutonium crashed in South America. In 1997, a woman in Oklahoma was hit by a piece of debris from an American rocket.